Leases Can Set the Pattern

Every farm lease to some extent sets the pattern of farming operations for the particular farm involved. A survey made in two Iowa counties points up some of the advantages and problems associated with cash and share leases

Does Your Lease Limit Profits?

Farm production practices and crop livestock combinations change. But leases don\u27t always follow suit to keep up with them. Some leases actually limit greatest profits for both the landlord and the tenant

Is Your Lease Up to Date?

While leasing itself doesn\u27t lead to farming inefficiency, some of the arrangements which have become customary over time do. These imperfections need to be corrected; they can be by keeping lease arrangements flexible

Is Crop Diversification the Answer?

Risk and uncertainty about the future combine to form one of the most important problems for farm operators. The good manager considers the risks and tries to make his production and investment decisions more than a hit or miss affair. The factors causing variations in yields, prices and costs can\u27t be predicted with perfect accuracy, but past experience, research results, farm outlook information, etc., can be helpful in making useful estimates

Structural changes in commercial agriculture

The basic idea of the conference on Structural Changes in Commercial Agriculture was planted in the spring of 1964 by Earl 0. Heady. He outlined for the North Central Farm Management Research Committee his concern about the kind and amount of response to both current and prospective structural changes in the commercial farm firm. Many changes represent adjustments to technological and other innovations originating in marketing, research, and educational agencies serving farmers.https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/card_reports/1025/thumbnail.jp

Relationship of crop-share and cash leasing systems to farming efficiency

Farmers have numerous methods of obtaining control of the productive services of resources. They can buy the resources outright and utilize their services. This is the main method by which the productive services of seed, machinery, feed, livestock and other forms of capital are obtained. Although a market exists whereby the services of machines and livestock (chiefly breeding stock) can be hired on a custom basis, farmers usually purchase the entire stock of services embodied in these resources and then utilize the services as they flow forth over time in the production process. At the opposite extreme, the services of labor are always hired; a market does not exist whereby a laborer and the stock of productive services which he represents can be purchased outright. Between these two extremes fall the services of land, buildings and other real estate. The entire stock of productive services embodied in real estate can be purchased and the farmer then becomes an owner-operator. However, the flow of productive services from land and buildings can also be purchased without resort to ownership. Services of real estate can be hired by tenant operators through various types of leasing arrangements. Real estate services may be purchased for a year or other period depending on the term of the lease.</p

Is Your Lease Up to Date?

While leasing itself doesn't lead to farming inefficiency, some of the arrangements which have become customary over time do. These "imperfections" need to be corrected; they can be by keeping lease arrangements flexible.</p

Leases Can Set the Pattern

Every farm lease to some extent sets the pattern of farming operations for the particular farm involved. A survey made in two Iowa counties points up some of the advantages and problems associated with cash and share leases.</p